Basement Blessings

Family Room and Kevin's Room.....

Nathan has been hard at work.

Blessings come in different ways. The other day we were preparing for the soft water guy to come and fix the water softener machine. As we were cleaning the basement, behind the couches, we noticed a problem. To make a long story short our kitchen pipe has been leaking for quite awhile and we never noticed it. Nathan has been cutting out the drywall to get to the problem. Literally from ceiling to floor - from family room to Kevin's room. If we hadn't had to prepare for the water softener guy who knows when we would have found the broken pipe. A blessing in disguise.

And......the part for the water softener will be replaced with no charge. It was a factory defect.

Count your blessings. Name them one by one.

June Girls Camp

I have been in meetings since January planning our stake girl's camp. We had a meeting most every week, if not twice a week. These are just a couple of pictures that I have. There are pictures online from our official stake photographer.

What a great experience. I will have to write about it later. I really need to.

Here is a link to all the pictures:

https://picasaweb.google.com/105399316792392133268/YWCamp2011?feat=directlink

We had a stake camp song. Here is the link for the song, "Believe":

https://lds.org/youth/music?lang=eng

July 2011 Camping

We went camping with the Wrights, Hursts, Daniels, Jones, and Zabriskies to Smith and More House in the Uintas. This was our third time to this camp. Kyle caught plenty of fish. We fished by the dam and had great success.

After fishing Kyle cleaned and prepared his fish for dinner. He put them in the cooler. That next morning there was aluminum foil all over the ground by our trailer, but no fish. The raccoons had opened up our cooler, unlatched it, and had a feast. They took Kyle's nicely prepared fish and ate them all.

Kristen and Jon met us at camp on Friday evening. These pictures were taken during breakfast on Saturday morning.
Kyle has a new job. He is volunteering for our scuba friend, Mark. Trying to bring in business for Mark's shop, "Rock Bottom Diving", in Pleasant Grove. I took these pictures on my way home from work. It had to be 90 degrees out there.

Kevin and McKay Get Wet

They love it!

This water was freezing. It was snow just a few minutes ago.

The 4-Wheelers

Exploring the canyon:

Nathan and Lori's turn.....

June 2011

June was filled with many activities. Anywhere from the mountains, to the ocean, to the rodeo.


Strawberry Days Rodeo
Tim keeping busy and exploring our world.....his way.
Camping with the Daniel Family up Daniel's Summit. No relation :)

Main Canyon by Strawberry Reservoir.


Nathan took the boys to San Diego, California after visiting with Jody and Katy in El Centro. The boys went scuba diving at La Jolla Beach.

May 2011 - Art Wheless

Uncle Art

Art died April 15, 2011, at home in Bellevue, Washington at age 90. Born January 13, 1921, at Fort Worth, Texas, he was the son of Arthur Davis Wheless, Sr., and Ruth Ella Grieve Wheless.

Art was preceded in death by his parents; two wives: Decillion (Dixie) Million Wheless and Josephine Bradley Wheless; two sisters: Cara Alice Wheless Larsen and Mary Ruth Wheless; two children: Frances Van Woert Lewis and Mark R. Wheless; and one granddaughter.

Art is survived by his wife Leanne Cullimore Wheless; eight children: Dianne Thorniley, Penelope (Dwayne) Hawkes, Michael (Marilou) Wheless, Noelle Million, Jennifer Silverton, Lucille (Harris) Lege, Brian Wheless, Rebecca (Eric Smits) Wheless, 14 grandchildren; 20 great grandchildren; one great great grandson. He is also survived by Leanne’s children: Annette (Simon) Wong and Scott Blair; one granddaughter and three great grandsons.

Art worked for The Boeing Company from September, 1941, until he retired in February, 1985. Most of his years with Boeing were spent in the Seattle area; however, he also was located for eight years in New Orleans, Louisiana, and for shorter periods in Rochester, New York; Paris, France, and Friedrichshafen, Germany. During his many years with Boeing, he worked as a Manufacturing Engineer on over 30 aircraft and space programs including Apollo and AWACS. Near the beginning of his employment at Boeing he worked as a tooling designer in the original Red Barn. In New Orleans Art as “Tillie” was with the Boeing Klown Klub, who visited and entertained sick children.

Art loved to tinker and build and remodel things. After he retired, he volunteered with the Visiting Nurse Service, installing grab bars, wheelchair ramps, etc.

Art had many interests in life. Two of the biggest were traveling and dancing. He traveled throughout the world both with Boeing and personally. He square danced, round danced, ballroom danced and informally “people” danced all over the U.S. and in Canada, Europe and Mexico.

At Art’s request there will be no funeral or memorial service.

Leanne Wheless is my mom's older sister. Art was a special man. I remember how kind and loving he was. My last visit to Seattle, many years ago, he made sure we were entertained and taken care of. He gave us a great tour of Seattle.

April and May 2011

April 2011

Tim love to be entertained and he doesn't stop moving.

Tim on Easter Sunday. Toys!

I couldn't resist submitting Kenny's pose. Yes, this is my brother, but most of all I wanted to show his new trailer with Lex peeking out the window.

In May, Kristen and Jon were babysitting for the Rollins in our neighborhood. They stayed at their home with their four children, while the parents went on an anniversary cruise. Tim was on his best behavior.

These are pictures of Kristen, Jon, and Tim in a Provo park. May 2011

Tim 7mos

2011 Kyle's Band Concert

Pleasant Grove Jr. High

Kyle received a treat and band award at his final 8th grade band concert.

May 2011 Jr. Prom

Kevin asked Tressa Stars out for the Jr. Prom. For their dinner Nathan entertained. Well, I don't think he was suppose to, but he did provide dinner. Jonathan helped.

Who came to dinner?

Trevor Severson and Breanna Long

Trevor Baxter and Rachel Bassett

Masquarde

April 2011 - Spring Break in Moab

The following pictures were taken on our spring break. We headed to Moab and enjoyed exploring the great-outdoors.


We went hiking up to Delicate Arch and got a permit to hike the Firy Furnace.

We met some friends there. The Allred's use to live by us in Pleasant Grove. They now live in Logan. Heather had a medical conference in Moab, the same week we had spring break.
Of course we went for a ride on the 4-wheelers. Heather took me for a great ride on the side-by-side. We had Luke and Caden sitting in the back in their car seats.

We stayed in Arch View Campground about 10 miles outside of Moab. I got a new "Hang Loose" t-shirt from the Allred's from their Hawaii trip. I'm pretty spoiled, but Kevin got a hula girl for his car.
We went on plenty of hikes, but the scenery was amazing.

April 2011

Guess what our joy is? Tim keeps growing and wanting our attention. Well, he gets it.

He eats almost anything....more than a 6 mos old baby should be allowed.

Well, we got our April snow.
The boys go out to dinner, while Kristen and mom have Bunko at the house. Tim is obviously part of the boys!

March 2011

In March, Nick, Courtney, and Matthew Muir came to Utah to visit from Boston. They had Matthew sealed to them in the Mount Timpanogos Temple. These pictures are from when we all went out to dinner at the South Provo Mall at the Red Robbin.

Cinda and Chuck cam to visit from Lander, Wyoming. They went out to lunch with Kristen, Jon, and Timothy on afternoon. Then one evening they went out to dinner with the other "Criman Clan", Nathan, Lori, and the boys.
Tim continues to grown, respond, and entertain.....

March birthday celebrations:
March is full of birthdays. Kevin, Kristen, and Grandpa Anderson share March birthdays.

Above - Kristen gets new PJ's, Kevin get a tie, Great-Grandpa Anderson poses with Tim, Great-Grandma Anderson keeps Tim amused, and Cinda and Chuck visit from Lander.

It's weird typing "Great-Grandpa" and "Great-Grandma". Can't believe it.

February 2011

We were given some tickets to the Utah Jazz game. It's always fun having dinner at the EnergySolution Center. And getting ice cream. The Jazz were playing the Lakers. You'd think that it was a home game for the Lakers. Not fun. Lakers fans are nutty. And that's being nice.


Kristen and Jon took Timothy to the Midway Ice Show.
I was doing a little genealogy and found this picture posted on ancestry.com. I've never seen my grandparents grave marker finished. They were wonderful people and did so much for our family. They hold a special place in my heart.
This collage is a mixture of February.

The Last Seven Months

It has been too long since I've added pictures to this blog. We have been soo busy. I've been so busy. But we still seemed to snap a few pictures along the way. Our love goes out to all our friends and family. Please enjoy!



January 2011 Soldier Hollow - Midway, Utah

If Timothy was fussy the person to find was Kevin. He had the magic touch.
The boys (Nathan, Kevin, and Kyle) at the Crator in Midway, Utah.
Kevin was in the play "Anne Frank" at Mountain View High School. He played Ann'es boyfriend, Peter Van Dan.

Updating.....

Wow, I haven't been on my blog for months. I have spent all night updating my pictures, cropping, making collages, downloading.......I have put six months worth of pictures on my computer. Now I will get this blog updated. Not tonight. It's late and I must get to bed. I can't wait to get the pictures on so all family and friends can see them.

Until next time......

Moose Chair

Rocky-rocky!!!

I just had to share this cute picture. Kristen and Jon went IKEA to explore the big store. They text this picture to me of Baby Timothy. Timothy is even grabbing the handle. What a cute little boy! He is twelve weeks old this week.

Tocanos Tradition

It's a tradition that we take the kids to Tocanos once a year. Usually during the Christmas holiday. We finally made it this weekend. This year we had a couple of extra new-comers. Last year Jon was in Casper and Timothy wasn't born yet. The tradition continues. Kristen was actually eating meat (beef), and Taconos lost their money on Kevin. Mr. Healthy(Kev) didn't have salad and couldn't get enough meat. Timothy just stared at the food. Maybe next year he can have a bite of some fruit or vegetables. We all left with happy tummies.

Baby Timmers

January 2011

Baby Timothy is growing so fast. We are having so much fun with him. We are anxious to see him grow even more this 2011 year. We are truly bless!

Christmas in St. George

After church on Sunday, December 26, we headed to St. George, Utah to visit with Grandma and Grandpa Anderson. The weather was terrible, roads slippery, but we made it in one piece.

We spent from Sunday to Wednesday in Southern Utah. My parents are staying in a RV park in Washington Utah. It wasn't much warmer than Northern Utah, but it was great to get together.

We spent the evenings playing Dominos. I'm pretty sure there was some cheating going on, but no one will confess.

On Monday we went to the Rosenbruch Wildlife Museum. It was amazing. Animals from all over the world displayed in their natural habitat. A new place that we didn't know about. I am glad that we went.

http://www.rosenbruch.org/

Each of us had a recorded remote for a self-guided tour. Grandpa Anderson is sitting by the sheep listening to their story. Grandma Anderson posses by the giraffe from Africa.
At first Grandma Anderson was upset the tourist were on their cell phones. Guess what? She had one too (the remote). She couldn't figure out why all these people had their cell phones on. I guess you had to be there.

Pioneer Park

Grandma and Grandpa Anderson found a place to hike and repel. Kevin brought his ropes and gear ready to climb. Of course Oliver and Tulip loved the walk.
Kyle went first. This was his first time repelling off a cliff. It's a lot different than repelling in our backyard. He was awesome.
Kevin is superman. He really enjoys this danger stuff. I had a hard time watching. He was very cautious and made sure everything was hooked up correctly. They made it to the ground safely. Wow!



Nathan brought his scuba gear so the boys could go scuba diving in the pool. We rented some tanks from a St. George scuba shop. They dove both Monday and Tuesday in the pool at the RV Park where my parents are staying.
We headed back to Pleasant Grove on Wednesday morning. There was a big snow storm moving in and we wanted to beat the storm. Well, we became part of the storm. Cars were off the road, sliding with the icy conditions. We made it home safely, but it was a nail biter.

We are grateful for Grandma and Grandpa Anderson. We sure enjoy getting together and having so many laughs. We can't wait to see them again.